Geographic Regions: North America

Horseshoe shape; hills worn by erosion; hundreds of lakes carved by glaciers

• Basin and Range
• Coastal Plain
• Canadian Shield
• Interior Lowlands

What region is pictured here?

• Basin and Range

• Coastal Plain

• Great Plains

• Coastal Range

What region is pictured here?

• Interior Lowlands

• Canadian Shield

• Coastal Plain

• Appalachian Highlands

What region is pictured here?

• Coastal Range

• Great Plains

• Coastal Plain

• Rocky Mountains

What region is pictured here?

• Appalachian Highlands

• Rocky Mountains

• Coastal Range

• Basin and Range

What region is pictured here?

• Coastal Range

• Great Plains

• Coastal Plain

• Rocky Mountains

Which region has rugged mountains along the Pacific Coast that stretch from California to Canada; Contains fertile valleys?

• Coastal Range

• Basin and Range

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

Which region is located west of the Great Plains and east of the Basin and Range with rugged mountains stretching from Alaska almost to Mexico ; high elevations. This region contains the Continental Divide, which determines the directional flow of rivers?

• Coastal Range

• Basin and Range

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

Which region is located west of Coastal Plain extending from eastern Canada to western Alabama; includes the Piedmont with old, eroded mountains (oldest mountain range in North America)?

• Coastal Range

• Basin and Range

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains

Which region is located west of Rocky Mountains and east of the Coastal Range and is an area of varying elevations containing isolated mountain ranges and Death Valley (the lowest point in North America)?

• Coastal Range

• Basin and Range

• Rocky Mountains

• Appalachian Mountains